Shaun Cassidy (Shaun Paul Cassidy) Quotes

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

Shaun Cassidy

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• I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • American
  • Mean

• My best and worst 'Idol' moments? I don't have a worst 'Idol' moment... I've been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I'll toot it again!

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Single
  • Moments
  • Worst

• I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Cat
  • Doe
  • Idols

• Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Light
  • Shows
  • Idols

• When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Music
  • History
  • Reality

• Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Kind
  • Shelves
  • Statutes

• Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Book
  • Speak
  • Rooms

• I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Lose
  • Cinema
  • Idols

• I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols

  

  Kwon Ji-yong Big Bang
  • Thinking
  • Feels
  • Musician

• DBSK are a very idol group that everyone adores.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Groups
  • Idols
  • Adore

• I find artists like Tim Barry, Cory Branan, and Jenny Owen Youngs, these current artists that are doing what they're doing now are my idols, my generation's incredible songwriters. I've listened to so much music on the whole ride and I'm inspired by a lot of classic artists, but it's the people right next to me singing songs that are blowing my mind, if that makes any sense.

  

  Chuck Ragan
  • Idols
  • Tim Barry
  • Cory Branan

• That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

  

  Nigel Lythgoe
  • People
  • Worst
  • Boring

• 3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • House
  • Shelves
  • Noodles

• Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.

  

  Evgeni Plushenko
  • Competition
  • Beats
  • Embarrassed

• I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol, but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Wife
  • Shows
  • Idols

• A country without idols is nothing.

  

  Roberto Clemente
  • Country
  • Idols

• As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

  

  Elizabeth A. Johnson
  • History
  • Idols
  • Metaphors

• I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Believe
  • Try
  • Disappear

• I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one guy come out of the audience and go, "Hey man, you should have cut 20 minutes. That wasn't so good." And I'll just obsess on that one guy. After all this love, I'll obsess on him and want to smash his face in and strangle him and kick him down the stairs and I'll be pouting about that one guy all night.

  

  Wayne White
  • People
  • Love
  • Sense

• It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning.

  

  Paul Cullen
  • Work
  • Organization
  • Meaning

• Getting life insurance is like making a bet you can't win. If you live, you don't get the money. If you die, you don't get to enjoy the money.

  

  Oliver Gaspirtz
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

  

  Shaun Cassidy
  • Idols
  • Shelves